Simply Knitting is the UK's best-selling knitting magazine. Whether you’re a beginner or you’ve been knitting for years you'll find lots of exciting patterns, knitting news and great buys in every issue.
Designer Campbell acts as selector for 30 unusual beaded bag patterns, one in a series sponsored by the magazine. More than a dozen artists draw upon a variety of techniques, including knitting and crocheting, to produce purses in different design styles. There's a bead-decoupage plastic box, with decorations applied on top of special tape. Existing fabric purses are embellished with abstract art deco-like motifs or enhanced by highlighting existing patterns with beads for a three-dimensional impact.
1001 Full-Size Patterns, Projects & Ideas (Better Homes & Gardens)
Season after season, you will have 1001 pattern, projects and ideas to craft just about everything your creative side can imagine. Whether you love to paint, sew, decoupage, snip, fold or glue -- you will find a variety of pattern styles to personalise your project. And with all the projects in this book, you will be tempted to try out a new technique or two -- ones you will master in no time!
Here are 45 unique socks - more than 80 different patterns - all shown in colour and fully charted for you to knit. From the rural villages of Turkey come these outstanding traditional stocking patterns. Forceful in design and vivid in colour, these patterns are as delightful to knit as they are to wear. Included are complete instructions for knitting socks in the Turkish fashion and guidelines for adapting these patterns to use in sweaters, hats, and anything else you like to knit.
Nordic Knitting: Thirty-One Patterns in the Scandinavian Tradition
This collection of over 30 hand-knitted patterns are all from Scandinavian countries. The book is in two parts - looking at the historical development of knitting in the following islands and countries: Faroe Islands, Aland Islands, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Greenland and Denmark. The second section of the book shows the reader how to knit each design and how to adapt the patterns to varying shapes and styles of sweater. The important elements are the traditional motifs incorporated into the designs.
